This table displays the selected game’s current values on four BGG outcomes (UsersRated, Average, GeekRating, Weight) along with my predictive model(s) estimated values for where these games are likely to end up.
Published | ID | Name | Type | UserRatings | Average | GeekRating | Weight |
2021 | Current | 1,975 | 7.80 | 6.63 | 2.97 | ||
Estimated | 7,200 | 7.91 | 7.43 | 3.24 |
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Description |
The year is 1913. The steamship SS Atlantica is two days out from port on its voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Its unsuspecting passengers fully anticipated a calm journey to Boston, Massachusetts, with nothing out of the ordinary to look forward to. However, strange nightmares plague the minds of the people aboard the ship every night; rumors circulate of dark shapes following closely behind the ship just beneath the waves; and tensions rise when a body is discovered in the ship's chapel, signs of a strange ritual littered around the corpse. |
Information on the game’s designers, artists, families, mechanics and categories from BGG.
Published | ID | Name | Publisher(s) | Designer(s) | Artist(s) | Categories | Families | Mechanics |
2021 | Fantasy Flight Games | Tony Fanchi | Henning Ludvigsen | Deduction | Components: Miniatures | Area Movement | ||
ADC Blackfire Entertainment | Corey Konieczka | Fantasy | Series: Arkham Horror Files (Fantasy Flight Games) | Hand Management | ||||
Asmodee | Horror | Theme: Art style – Art Nouveau | Hidden Roles | |||||
Asmodee China | Novel-based | Theme: Cthulhu Mythos | Team-Based Game | |||||
Asmodee Italia | Traitor Game | |||||||
Delta Vision Publishing | Variable Player Powers | |||||||
Galápagos Jogos | ||||||||
Geekach Games | ||||||||
GoKids 玩樂小子 | ||||||||
Rebel Sp. z o.o. | ||||||||
For the full profile of the selected game, click on the links in the table or go to https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/340466
For each of the predictions above, I used models that were trained on historical boardgamegeek data in order to predict the selected game. How did the model(s) arrive at their predictions? The following plot displays Shapley values to indicate what features were most influential for the model’s predictions. Anything in blue increased the model’s predictions, anything in red decreased the model’s predictions.
What games are similar to Unfathomable? I compare the selected game to every other game on boardgamegeek based on its mechanics, playing time, complexity, and game type. The tables below display the games which had the most similar data to Unfathomable. The reported similarity is the cosine similarity between the selected game and all other games published before 2021.
This similarity score ranges from -1 to 1, where similarity of 1 indicates that games are exactly identical (a game will have a score of 1 with itself).
Note: This analysis does not look at a game’s ratings on BGG, publisher, artist, or designer - it focuses on finding similar games based on how they play, not how they are rated or by their theme.
The table below displays games with the most similar data to Unfathomable. Click on a game’s ID or Name to go straight to its profile on boardgamegeek.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2021 | 1.00 | 6.63 | 7.80 | 3.24 | 1,975 | ||
1 | 2014 | 0.81 | 5.68 | 6.18 | 2.92 | 690 | ||
2 | 2017 | 0.80 | 5.53 | 6.88 | 2.25 | 39 | ||
3 | 1981 | 0.79 | 5.52 | 5.88 | 1.67 | 93 | ||
4 | 2010 | 0.77 | 6.46 | 7.57 | 3.49 | 2,011 | ||
5 | 1993 | 0.76 | 5.50 | 5.71 | 3.27 | 56 | ||
6 | 2019 | 0.75 | 5.59 | 7.08 | 2.67 | 116 | ||
7 | 2004 | 0.75 | 6.32 | 6.70 | 3.21 | 5,927 | ||
8 | 2008 | 0.75 | 6.57 | 7.44 | 3.09 | 2,780 | ||
9 | 1824 | 0.75 | 5.54 | 8.24 | 3.67 | 34 | ||
10 | 2009 | 0.74 | 6.39 | 7.51 | 3.56 | 1,749 | ||
11 | 1999 | 0.74 | 6.01 | 6.52 | 2.84 | 2,511 | ||
12 | 2001 | 0.74 | 6.04 | 6.67 | 2.87 | 1,963 | ||
13 | 2008 | 0.73 | 7.56 | 7.74 | 3.25 | 34,383 | ||
14 | 2005 | 0.71 | 5.55 | 6.97 | 3.38 | 92 | ||
15 | 2015 | 0.71 | 5.58 | 6.24 | 1.67 | 235 | ||
16 | 2006 | 0.71 | 5.69 | 6.88 | 2.87 | 313 | ||
17 | 2009 | 0.71 | 6.21 | 6.91 | 3.14 | 2,489 | ||
18 | 2009 | 0.70 | 5.76 | 6.93 | 2.47 | 452 | ||
19 | 2005 | 0.70 | 6.96 | 7.11 | 2.57 | 26,347 | ||
20 | 2011 | 0.70 | 5.75 | 6.48 | 2.65 | 626 | ||
21 | 2011 | 0.70 | 6.08 | 7.54 | 3.05 | 722 | ||
22 | 2016 | 0.70 | 5.53 | 6.54 | 3.17 | 106 | ||
23 | 2017 | 0.69 | 6.15 | 7.29 | 2.35 | 1,311 | ||
24 | 2019 | 0.69 | 5.61 | 7.20 | 3.11 | 150 | ||
25 | 1980 | 0.68 | 5.56 | 6.73 | 2.00 | 88 |
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What games are similar to Unfathomable while also being highly rated by the boardgamegeek community? In this table I multiply every neighboring game’s similarity score by its GeekRating. The resulting score is an attempt to balance these two quantities.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Score | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2021 | 6.63 | 1.00 | 6.63 | 7.80 | 3.24 | 1,975 | ||
1 | 2008 | 5.48 | 0.73 | 7.56 | 7.74 | 3.25 | 34,383 | ||
2 | 2010 | 4.98 | 0.77 | 6.46 | 7.57 | 3.49 | 2,011 | ||
3 | 2008 | 4.91 | 0.75 | 6.57 | 7.44 | 3.09 | 2,780 | ||
4 | 2005 | 4.89 | 0.70 | 6.96 | 7.11 | 2.57 | 26,347 | ||
5 | 2009 | 4.74 | 0.74 | 6.39 | 7.51 | 3.56 | 1,749 | ||
6 | 2004 | 4.73 | 0.75 | 6.32 | 6.70 | 3.21 | 5,927 | ||
7 | 2015 | 4.60 | 0.64 | 7.20 | 7.49 | 3.25 | 12,847 | ||
8 | 2014 | 4.59 | 0.81 | 5.68 | 6.18 | 2.92 | 690 | ||
9 | 1979 | 4.53 | 0.64 | 7.06 | 7.61 | 3.45 | 5,641 | ||
10 | 1999 | 4.45 | 0.74 | 6.01 | 6.52 | 2.84 | 2,511 | ||
11 | 2001 | 4.45 | 0.74 | 6.04 | 6.67 | 2.87 | 1,963 | ||
12 | 2011 | 4.44 | 0.60 | 7.36 | 7.57 | 3.72 | 30,935 | ||
13 | 2017 | 4.42 | 0.80 | 5.53 | 6.88 | 2.25 | 39 | ||
14 | 2018 | 4.42 | 0.65 | 6.78 | 7.28 | 2.26 | 4,934 | ||
15 | 2005 | 4.40 | 0.67 | 6.54 | 6.82 | 1.82 | 8,288 | ||
16 | 2009 | 4.39 | 0.71 | 6.21 | 6.91 | 3.14 | 2,489 | ||
17 | 2007 | 4.37 | 0.63 | 6.91 | 7.34 | 3.85 | 7,239 | ||
18 | 1981 | 4.37 | 0.79 | 5.52 | 5.88 | 1.67 | 93 | ||
19 | 2012 | 4.34 | 0.66 | 6.55 | 7.34 | 2.19 | 2,312 | ||
20 | 2011 | 4.30 | 0.61 | 7.00 | 7.41 | 2.59 | 7,944 | ||
21 | 2011 | 4.29 | 0.60 | 7.13 | 7.38 | 2.65 | 14,699 | ||
22 | 2019 | 4.28 | 0.64 | 6.65 | 7.20 | 2.19 | 4,399 | ||
23 | 2011 | 4.25 | 0.70 | 6.08 | 7.54 | 3.05 | 722 | ||
24 | 2017 | 4.24 | 0.69 | 6.15 | 7.29 | 2.35 | 1,311 | ||
25 | 2005 | 4.23 | 0.62 | 6.81 | 7.11 | 2.95 | 9,118 |
I first ran a dimension reduction method (PCA) to identify the main points of variation for games on BGG. The first 25 components explained roughly 50% of the overall variation in the dataset, so I computed the cosine similarity between every game’s score on these 25 components.
The following plot shows every game on BGG plotted on the first two principal components of variation. I then highlight where the selected game and its nearest neighbors fall on these first two components.
Similarity scores are based on 25 principal components - the next table displays the selected game and its neighbors profiles on each of these components.
What are these components? The following plot shows which features contribute the most to each component.